Mosiah 26:27 Textual Variants

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and they shall depart [unto >% into 1|into ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] everlasting fire

Scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially wrote “unto everlasting fire”, but then he erased the u of the unto and overwrote the erased u with an i, giving “into everlasting fire”. In 2 Nephi 9:16, Oliver Cowdery made the same initial error and subsequent correction in the same phrase “into everlasting fire”. As discussed under that passage, the preposition into is undoubtedly the original preposition for “everlasting fire”.

Summary: Maintain the preposition into in Mosiah 26:27, the corrected reading in 𝓟: “they shall depart into everlasting fire”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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